Definition of Flaubert in English :

Define Flaubert in English

Flaubert meaning in English

Meaning of Flaubert in English

Pronunciation of Flaubert in English

Flaubert pronunciation in English

Pronounce Flaubert in English

Flaubert

see synonyms of flaubert

Noun

1. flaubert, gustave flaubert

French writer of novels and short stories (1821-1880)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Flaubert

see synonyms of flaubert
noun
Gustave (ɡystav). 1821–80, French novelist and short-story writer, regarded as a leader of the 19th-century naturalist school. His most famous novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for which he was prosecuted (and acquitted) on charges of immorality, and L'Éducation sentimentale (1869) deal with the conflict of romantic attitudes and bourgeois society. His other major works include Salammbô (1862), La Tentation de Saint Antoine (1874), and Trois contes (1877)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers


Flaubert

see synonyms of flaubert
Gustave (gysˈtav) ; güstȧ) 1821-80; Fr. novelist

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Flaubert

see synonyms of flaubert
French writer whose novel Madame Bovary (1857), noted for its precise literary style and psychological perceptiveness, is considered a forerunner of naturalism.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.